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APRIL 30, 2010

By the way, this mess is threatening the Breton National Wildlife Refuge at crucial breeding time. Tags: oil spill oil drilling Obama wildlife pollution Gulf of Mexico. What a mess. And it looks like BP has some answering to do.

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APRIL 10, 2013

President Obama has a very important decision to make in approving or rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline. About 3 billion of North America’s landbirds, 26 million of its waterfowl, and 7 million of its shorebirds breed here. There are nearly 100 species of which 50% or more of the entire population breeds in the Boreal Forest.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. Their remarkable survival skills, evolved over thousands of years, rely on a chain of stopover feeding grounds and habitats for breeding and raising young – but break any one link and the survival of the entire species is threatened.

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APRIL 11, 2017

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering changing the status of the endangered Black-capped Vireo : it has proposed delisting it entirely. and it breeds in the scrublands of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. Moreover, management to control parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbird has improved vireo breeding success.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”), the agency that implements ESA as to birds. The Bald Eagle is one of the true American conservation success stories: the iconic national bird was listed in 1967 when there were less than 500 breeding pairs in the lower 48. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.). Fish and Wildlife Service.

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